Category: Life Lessons

Volunteer Ideas For Teens My oldest daughter just started her sophomore year in college. The college she is going to has a great veterinary program. That’s the original reason why we did a college visit, she wanted to check out the vet program. After deciding it’s too long to be in school she chose another…

What Is Gaslighting in Relationships This article is the third one I’ve written regarding gaslighting. I discovered the whole concept of gaslighting completely by accident. While at a library I noticed a book that had the word gaslighting in the title. I was waiting to pick up one of my daughters from an event and…

Benefits of Writing In A Journal Most of the time I am a pretty optimistic and resilient person. I bounce back from setbacks fairly quickly and usually see the good side of life even when bad things happen. A number of years ago I was going through a tough time. I was pretty down…

Positive Monday Quotes Today is Monday. I got up about 15 minutes later than I had planned on but whatever, no big deal. I still put on my workout clothes and shambled downstairs to the kitchen. Then I refilled my water and grabbed my phone and headed to the basement to ride my stationary bike. …

What Is A Sunk Cost + What It Means To You Sunk cost is a fascinating concept that’s been around for a while. While it’s original meaning isn’t all that exciting the implications of applying it to other areas of life is. If you’ve never heard of a sunk cost before reading this title you…

Why Don’t People Like Me Boy oh boy, if that’s a question you’re asking yourself it must be a bad day. Or maybe it’s how you feel all the time but I hope not. Most days I feel like at least some people like me but like everyone else, I have crappy days too. I…

Can I Become A Better Person How’s that for a eye catching title? Can I become a better person. That really makes you stop and think. At least it would to me if I read that as I was skimming though Facebook or wherever it came across my radar. Or maybe you searched for this…

Teenage Addiction To Cell Phones You’ve yelled for your teenage daughter to help you with something and as is usual, there’s no response. Once you finish up carrying all that stuff out to the garage (in 2 trips because nobody helped) you go looking for her. Surprise surprise, she’s on her bed staring slack jawed…

What To Do At Lunch Okay so here’s how the idea for this post happened. Yesterday was Friday. I was working out in the gym that we have at work around 11:00AM. The gym is right off the front door as you walk into the building. It’s easy to see people coming and going through…

When Can I Draw From My 401k Hey man, I’ve been there. I don’t recall exactly when it was, maybe around 8-9 years ago. Obviously I was in some kind of a financial pinch. I think for one reason or another the amount of money coming into my household had dropped fairly significantly. And it…